I’m watching pretty much everything on the StandupComedy subreddit, which currently includes a lot of crowd interactions because such is the vogue of social-media promotion (to avoid posting actual material from the shows to which people might want to come).
I basically never get an impression that an interaction was planted, be it regular crowd work or heckling. Mostly because the public is typically pretty dumb, and really interesting quips are very rare. I think if an interaction was scripted, it would inevitably stand out by how neatly it fit into the routine.
The only clip where I seriously think the audience members might’ve been in on the joke (without explicitly saying so) is ‘I am the crowd work king’, and it still ends up pretty funny.
I’m watching pretty much everything on the StandupComedy subreddit, which currently includes a lot of crowd interactions because such is the vogue of social-media promotion (to avoid posting actual material from the shows to which people might want to come).
I basically never get an impression that an interaction was planted, be it regular crowd work or heckling. Mostly because the public is typically pretty dumb, and really interesting quips are very rare. I think if an interaction was scripted, it would inevitably stand out by how neatly it fit into the routine.
The only clip where I seriously think the audience members might’ve been in on the joke (without explicitly saying so) is ‘I am the crowd work king’, and it still ends up pretty funny.